List of Recent Holarctic Bird Species

1977 book by Karel H. Voous

List of Recent Holarctic Bird Species

Author| Karel H. Voous
Language| English
Publisher| British Ornithologists' Union

Publication date

| 1977
Publication place| United Kingdom
Media type| Print (Paperback)
ISBN| 0-907446-13-2
OCLC| 45863099

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List of Recent Holarctic Bird Species is a 1977 book by Karel H. Voous, published by the British Ornithologists' Union. It contains a list of 1,921 bird species recorded from the Holarctic zoogeographic region. It was widely adopted by ornithologists in Europe as a standard baseline list. It was originally published in two parts in the BOU's journal Ibis: that covering the non-passerines in 1973, and the passerine part in 1977. The list has been reprinted twice, in 1980 and 1991. It contains a foreword by Sir Hugh Elliott.

## Geographical scope

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In the western Palearctic region, the list adopts the same geographical limits as those used by the editors of the handbook The Birds of the Western Palearctic.[1] The whole of the Arabian Peninsula and Iran are also included; further east, Voous followed the boundaries used by Hartert (1903–1923) [2] and Vaurie (1959, 1965).[3] In the Nearctic region, the list covers all of the continental U.S. and Canada, the Bahama Islands, plus the non-tropical parts of Mexico (defined as the states of Baja California, Sonora, Chihuahua, Durango, Zacatecas, Aguascalientes, Guanajuato, Querétaro, México, Distrito Federal, Coahuila and Nuevo León).[4]

## Footnotes

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1. ^ Cramp, Stanley et al. (1977-1994) Handbook of the Birds of Europe, the Middle East, and North Africa: The Birds of the Western Palearctic
2. ^ Hartert, Ernst (1903-23) Die Vögel der paläarktischen Fauna
3. ^ Vaurie, Charles (1959, 1965) The birds of the Palearctic fauna
4. ^ Voous, K. H. (1977) page 1

## Bibliography

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Voous, K. H. (1977) List of Recent Holarctic Bird Species British Ornithologists' Union ISBN 0-907446-13-2

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